Keynote: Are You Ready for Artificial Intelligence? Is AI Ready for You?

AI, or artificial intelligence, is powering a massive shift in the roles that computers play in our personal and professional lives. Most technical organizations expect to gain or strengthen their competitive advantage through the use of AI. But are you in a position to fulfill that expectation, to transform your research, your products, or your business using AI?

Jim Tung looks at the techniques that compose AI (deep learning, computer vision, robotics, and more), enabling you to identify opportunities to leverage it in your work. You will also learn how MATLAB® and Simulink® are giving engineers and scientists AI capabilities that were previously available only to highly-specialized software developers and data scientists.

Jim Tung, MathWorks

Jim Tung is a MathWorks Fellow, focusing on business and technology strategy and analysis. Jim has more than 25 years of experience in the technical computing software markets, including 20 years at MathWorks, where he previously held the positions of vice president of marketing and vice president of business development. Earlier in his career, Jim held marketing and sales management positions at Lotus Development and Keithley DAS, a pioneering manufacturer of PC-based data acquisition systems. Jim holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University.

Keynote: Concurrent Model-Based Technology Roadmapping

Corporate research and technology (R&T) management needs reliable information for strategic planning. Technology roadmaps are commonly used tools since they describe vision and corporate strategy for technology evolution. The process of creating a technology roadmap involves experts from engineering, product development, and all support functions evaluating and comparing opportunities for incremental as well as disruptive innovation. This work describes an approach where experts build and run models in a concurrent design environment, allowing the evaluation of potential product architectures according to a defined set of figures of merit and at different time horizons. Technology roadmaps are commonly used tools since they describe vision and corporate strategy for technology evolution.

Fabienne Robin, Airbus

Fabienne Robin is the Head of Team-X within Airbus Corporate Technology Office in Toulouse, which is responsible for the valuation and optimization of the R&T technology portfolio. Before joining CTO, Fabienne was portfolio management business partner within airbus R&T, where she contributed to put in place robust and value-steered selection processes for the technologies in the portfolio. Beforehand, Fabienne has hold several roles in Airbus Defence and Space, from test engineer in Kourou on Ariane 4, to development of Ariane 5 and finally system engineer in the team of the Ariane 5 chief engineer, where she specifically focussed on fluid propulsion systems.